Please take advantage of our mobile app before you arrive at the Victoria Park Plaza for the Future Workplace Summit. Connect with people you'd like to meet. Message them through the app. Send updates and share on social media. We'll be polling and surveying during the event to engage with the audience and keep the content relevant. Please participate in our polls and give us feedback on content and other event activities

Please take advantage of our mobile app before you arrive at the Victoria Park Plaza for the Future Workplace Summit. Connect with people you'd like to meet. Message them through the app. Send updates and share on social media. We'll be polling and surveying during the event to engage with the audience and keep the content relevant. Please participate in our polls and give us feedback on content and other event activities

Sumit Paul-Choudhury is the editor-in-chief of New Scientist, the world’s most popular science weekly and one of the UK’s best respected media brands. He also serves as creative director of New Scientist Live, the UK’s most exciting festival of ideas and discovery.Trained as a physicist at Imperial College, he subsequently turned his hand to journalism, working in London and New York, and spent fifteen years writing about finance and technology before returning to science in 2008.
Sumit makes complex subjects comprehensible and relevant to any audience, from artificial intelligence to black holes to climate change, leaving his listeners fascinated and uplifted. He also speaks authoritatively on the future, and is skilled at explaining how innovation and discovery change the world. He combines personal insight with critical thinking to offer fresh perspectives on the biggest issues of today, from financial crises to social media – and informed pointers as to those that will matter tomorrow.
As comfortable with the worlds of business and culture as he is with science, Sumit has written for publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the New Musical Express and spoken at events ranging from Innovate 2015 to London Fashion Week. He is a former judge of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and of the Royal Television Society Programme Awards. In 2012 he co-founded Arc, a critically acclaimed digital publication dedicated to literary explorations of the future.